A small and “harmless” asteroid entered the Earth’s atmosphere over the Philippines Wednesday afternoon, creating a fireball that lit up the sky, photos show.
The asteroid broke apart at around 12:46 p.m. ET (0:46 a.m. local ... Due to scientists' advance warning, some local people ...
New simulations reveal that there is an extremely small chance that the "city-killer" asteroid Apophis could be nudged onto a ...
Naturally, the bigger an asteroid is, the more damage it does. But there are many more small asteroids than large ones, and ...
Paul Wiegert, an astronomer at Canada's Western University, has published a study in The Planetary Science Journal warning ...
New simulations show that Jupiter's massive moon Ganymede was knocked off its axis when it was struck by a roughly ...
Asteroid 2024 ON, sized roughly 720 feet in diameter, will safely pass Earth today at a distance of 997,793 kilometers—more ...
The European Space Agency said an approximately 3-foot-wide asteroid struck Earth over the western Pacific on Wednesday ...
The giant rock was first spotted in 2004 and given the astral title of 99942, but after it was found that it carried a 2.7 ...
This hilarious comedy showcases a group of friends fighting the apocalyptic monster after the earth slowly goes towards its ...
"Asteroid," a plush Shiba, is the "zero-g indicator" on the Polaris Dawn mission. "A zero-g indicator is a little plush toy ...
Earth is getting a second moon! Yes, you read that right. From September 29 to November 25, "mini-moon"—an asteroid— will ...